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http://www.cnn.com/2012/06/18/world/...html?hpt=hp_t2
Apparently oppression of women in Pakinstan is still going strong! (and will continue to do so for the foreseable future)Quote:
(CNN) -- A popular female Pakistani singer who defied the Taliban's decree against singing and dancing was shot and killed in northwest Pakistan Monday night, police and hospital officials told CNN.
Authorities described the singer's ex-husband as a suspect in the case, and said early indications were that the Taliban were not involved, according to police official Imtiaz Altaf.
Ghazala Javed, who recorded scores of songs in her native Pashto language and became a household name among young, progressive ethnic Pashtuns in northwest Pakistan, had just left a beauty salon and was driving home with her father when gunmen on a motorcycle raced towards their car and sprayed it with bullets, Altaf said.
Javed was hit with six bullets and pronounced dead at a hospital in Peshawar, the capital of Pakistan's Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province, according to hospital official Rahim Afridi. Javed's father also was killed, police said.
In recent years the rise of the Pakistani Taliban in the region and the group's ban against singing and dancing made it difficult for Javed and other musical artists to perform and record songs in Pakistan. Javed recorded and taped many of her latest songs and music videos in nearby Dubai.
Last year Javed made headlines when she asked for a divorce from her husband after she reportedly found out that he had at least one other wife. It was a rare decision in a deeply conservative and male-dominated society where many view a woman's demand for a divorce as a dishonor to the husband.
Shortly after Monday night's shooting police released a statement saying Javed's sister had accused her ex-husband and two of his acquaintances
Investigators said a search was underway for the three men.
(at least we do not hear any of this from Iraq, a nation that was somewhat Westernized)
Looks like we've already have the destruction of the Pacific in place:
http://www.cnn.com/2012/05/21/world/...iref=obnetwork
Every time I go to the grocery store ... I'm reminded how much plastic is 'wasted' with all the double-bagging and extra-bagging, etc ... and that's like the tip of the iceberg.Quote:
(CNN) -- A marine expedition of environmentalists has confirmed the bad news it feared -- the "Great Pacific Garbage Patch" extends even further than previously known.
Organized by two non-profit groups -- the Algalita Marine Research Foundation and the 5 Gyres Institute -- the expedition is sailing from the Marshall Islands to Japan through a "synthetic soup" of plastic in the North Pacific Ocean on a 72-feet yacht called the Sea Dragon, provided by Pangaea Exploration.
The area is part of one of the ocean's five tropical gyres -- regions where bodies of water converge, with currents delivering high concentrations of plastic debris. The Sea Dragon is visiting the previously unexplored western half of the North Pacific gyre -- situated below the 35th parallel, and home to a massive expanse of plastic particles known as the "Great Pacific Garbage Patch" -- to look for plastic pollution and study its effect on marine life.
"We've been finding lots of micro plastics, all the size of a grain of rice or a small marble," Eriksen said via satellite phone. "We drag our nets and come up with a small handful, like confetti -- 10, 20, 30 fragments at a time. That's how it's been, every trawl we've done for the last thousand miles."
Eriksen, who has sailed through all five gyres, said this confirmed for him "that the world's oceans are 'plasticized.' Everywhere you go in the ocean, you're going to find this plastic waste."
Being tired all the goddamn time. Also, headaches.
I have bruised ribs when I fell off a roof and hit the top of a brick wall when I tried getting some little kittens from said roof. It was 105 degrees today and the little guys were stuck up there since who knows when.
I got them down though...guess that's something to smile about.
I put those kittens up there for a reason, bastard!
No it's ok, I suppose they can have a stay of execution. For now.
Another reason to frown: You must spread some Reputation around before giving it to Androidpk again.